And now, a magic trick...

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:21 pm

I'm sharing this fun magic trick my cousin sent me:
http://www.quizyourprofile.com/guessyournumber.swf

Enjoy!

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:58 pm

No magic at all (for a wonderlander

) but it's funny

Gen · Post by **Gen** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:00 pm

Look closely at the the numbers in each house.

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:29 am

Hi Gen, what happened to that funny wagging tail cat?

Gen · Post by **Gen** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:52 am

Hi Marinus, I got tired of the cat, so decided to find something else. Since you were talking in another thread about the earth, I thought this might be a fit in with people from all around the globe. What do you think?

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:31 am

Yes, of course. I think it will be good when all people on the earth are friends; are one!

And if your picture of the earth turning is a symbol of harmony all around the world, I think it's perfect

But I liked the other picture. My neighbour has a dog, between a Labrador and Golden retriever and it's almost his child. I also like that dog very much. And my neighbour always says: As long as it's tail moves, everything is allright

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:57 am

IMO, 0% magic

Look closely.
Did you notice in the end you actually told it what it is?

At the start there are 25 numbers split into 5 different colours.
It asks you what colour your number is. Choose the colour, and Wham! You are already down to only 5 possible answers because there are only 5 numbers of one colour!

In the next part you choose any colour. Ok do that.
Now you get to the house part, the same numbers appear but reorganized and categorized in houses instead of colours.
Choose the house with your number. OMG you've told it the number!
Now how could you have told it your number? Hilight quote below

Let's say I chose a number that was green... Pretend the green numbers are 1,2,3,4,5 Now do the next colour round that won't change anything. Now the houses. There are 5 houses and 5 numbers with the green colour from the first part. That could expain it already!
If there are 5 possible answers left and 5 houses. That really explains that each green number is in a different house. e.g. 3 would be in House 1, 2 would be in House 2, 5 would be in house 3, etc! There will never be 2 of the same colour in the same house!

Kilicool64 · Post by **Kilicool64** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:01 am

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:55 pm

dlcs18 wrote:IMO, 0% magic
Look closely.
Did you notice in the end you actually told it what it is?
At the start there are 25 numbers split into 5 different colours.
It asks you what colour your number is. Choose the colour, and Wham! You are already down to only 5 possible answers because there are only 5 numbers of one colour!
In the next part you choose any colour. Ok do that.
Now you get to the house part, the same numbers appear but reorganized and categorized in houses instead of colours.
Choose the house with your number. OMG you've told it the number!
Now how could you have told it your number? Hilight quote below
Let's say I chose a number that was green... Pretend the green numbers are 1,2,3,4,5 Now do the next colour round that won't change anything. Now the houses. There are 5 houses and 5 numbers with the green colour from the first part. That could expain it already!
If there are 5 possible answers left and 5 houses. That really explains that each green number is in a different house. e.g. 3 would be in House 1, 2 would be in House 2, 5 would be in house 3, etc! There will never be 2 of the same colour in the same house!

I still think it's a cool trick Mark! Thanks! I was amazed!

Now that I think about it....I've played so many of those 'trick number' games and I always choose #7 (my lucky number), I'm sure they know that's what I'll choose. So it's not magic, they just remember all of our favorite numbers.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:46 pm

Dizzy1 wrote:I've played so many of those 'trick number' games and I always choose #7 (my lucky number), I'm sure they know that's what I'll choose.

Hi Emmy,

My favorite number is 7 too.

You can play it again with a different number and it still works. We must be the only ones amazed by this. Of course, I didn't try and figure it out. Right now my brain is mush from the fever.

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:36 pm

awww, Mark you need to sleep. Or are you tired of doing that? When I have a fever, all I want to do is stay in bed. Are you drinking lots of water, juice and stuff? (I'm doctor dizzy)

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:41 pm

Dizzy1 wrote:awww, Mark you need to sleep. Or are you tired of doing that? When I have a fever, all I want to do is stay in bed. Are you drinking lots of water, juice and stuff? (I'm doctor dizzy)

Hi Emmy, I've spent about 90 % of my time in bed, but I am drinking water.

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:58 pm

Good! Now scoot your lil self back to bed. Call if you need meds.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:54 am

Very cool, but as any such "mind-readers" quite simple.

When you choose a colour you're down to five answers.
All them are in different houses and you're down to 1 answer. (the correct one)
It puts the number there WHEN you click on a door, not BEFORE.